Turguéneff--The Character of his art--_A Sportsman’s
Note-book_--Pessimism in his early novels--His series of novels
representing the leading types of Society: Rudin--Lavrétskiy--Helen
and Insároff--Bazároff--Why _Fathers
and Sons_ was misunderstood--_Hamlet_ and _Don Quixote_--_Virgin
Soil_--Movement towards the people--Tolstóy--_Childhood_
and _Boyhood_--During and after the Crimean
War--_Youth_: in search of an ideal--Small stories--_The
Cossacks_--Educational work--_War and Peace_--_Anna
Karénina_--Religious crisis--His interpretation of the Christian
teaching--Main points of Christian ethics--Latest
works of art--_Kreutzer Sonata_--_Resurrection_.